Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:14:31 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "Jerry M. Howell II" <jmhowell@jmhowell.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2 optical wheel mouse problems Message-ID: <20040301011431.GF42000@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <20040229110430.C32005@jmhowell.com> References: <20040229093926.A32005@jmhowell.com> <20040229175550.GB42000@alex.lan> <20040229110430.C32005@jmhowell.com>
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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:04:30AM -0700, Jerry M. Howell II wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:55:50PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:39:26AM -0700, Jerry M. Howell II wrote: > > > Hello all., > > > > > > I recently installed freeBSD 5.2 and have a problem. I have most > > > everything working corectly except the mouse. I set it to auto and it > > > detects the mouse but it jumps all over the screen. It's a prety > > > standard optical wheel mouse that seems to work fine under 4.8 and > > > under all distros of linux I've used so far. I've tried every > > > configuration I can think of under the sun. Does anyone have any > > > recomendations? > > > > Hi, > > > > There are two main ways of setting up the mouse. The first is to go only > > with the X config and the second is to rely on the consile setup. If you > > didn't use the second option, then please read the FAQ on the website. > > Could you please tell use wich option you used? It would also be a handy > > to have the configuration files or those parts there of that are > > relevant. > > > First I used /stand/sysinstall and selected the auto selecton. It > detected the mouse but started jumping. After that I decided to select > auto from the xf86config script, when that didn't work I tried sysmouse > but got no beter response. One thing I did notice one thing. If I hook > up a normal ps2 mouse and enable the mouse it works fine, even when I > swap out the normal mouse for the optical but when I reboot if I have > the optical mouse atached it goes back to jumping around. Realy weard. I have a wireless optical mouse ( MX700 from logitech) and thats working fine. Could you try and see if you have a working mouse in the console by setting in /etc/rc.conf these lines: moused_flags="-a .4" moused_port="/dev/psm0" moused_type="auto" moused_enable="YES" -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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